Why Intel over AMD?

[stcanard]

Pentium D is still based on the "Prescott" core - so it'll be great to use to heat your house during the winter months. So it won't be great.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2388
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2389

Wait until the post-Netburst cores from Intel. They'll be better.

Have you noticed the introduction date of June 2006. Coincidentally, according to Intel's roadmap that's the time frame for Pentium-M based dual-cores.

 

[Mav451]

i wouldent bet on it,once they start getting the dual core desktop pentium M's out the door AMD will be in a dust trail, for a long time competitors have only caught up with intel with a superior architecture and higher IPC, because of there thirst for clock speed and complete disregard for IPC intel has been stagnent with the P4, now this has changed and even a quick hack of a processor like the P-M is killing the competition, just you wait till a desktop version is comes out.

It IS already availabe on the desktop...if you like to dabble tho. In the mATX format, DFI has a motherboard with the socket 479 interface that takes the P-M chips.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/dfi-855gme-mgf/index.x?pg=1
That was back in Feb '05.

But the only problem, if you consider it at all, is the cost. Mobo + CPU alone comes to ~600. Then again, once overclocked, its performance is high-end (A64 4000+ territory aka FX-53); so the $430+ price tag for the P-M 755 is not a big deal.

This is, of course, thinking in cold, hard cash PC terms. No doubt Apple will increase the premium on this somehow, making the base model that houses these CPUs probably in the 1199-1399 price range.

 

[Mord]

It IS already availabe on the desktop...if you like to dabble tho. In the mATX format, DFI has a motherboard with the socket 479 interface that takes the P-M chips.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/dfi-855gme-mgf/index.x?pg=1
That was back in Feb '05.

But the only problem, if you consider it at all, is the cost. Mobo + CPU alone comes to ~600. Then again, once overclocked, its performance is high-end (A64 4000+ territory aka FX-53); so the $430+ price tag for the P-M 755 is not a big deal.

This is, of course, thinking in cold, hard cash PC terms. No doubt Apple will increase the premium on this somehow, making the base model that houses these CPUs probably in the 1199-1399 price range.

yeah i know, i meant when it's pushed as intels primary desktop cpu, not just in niche motherboards.